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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300240803321

Titolo

Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk, Inflammation and Disease / / edited by Filipe Palavra, Flávio Reis, Daniela Marado, Armando Sena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-16018-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

610

616

616.8

Soggetti

Internal medicine

Medicine

Neurology 

Internal Medicine

Biomedicine, general

Neurology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inflammation biomarkers and cardiometabolic risk -- Cardiovascular disease -- Diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome -- Ischemic stroke -- Chronic kidney disease -- Immune-mediated inflammatory rheumatic diseases -- Cardiometabolic risk, inflammation and neurodegenerative disorders.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses recent advances in the area of cardiometabolic risk biomarkers of chronic inflammatory and cardiovascular disorders. Tackling the topic in a systematic manner, the book starts with an introduction to cardiometabolic risk and its clinical relevance, comparing emergent and classical biomarkers. It then goes on to discuss cardiometabolic risk biomarkers in a range of diseases, including diabetes, ischemic stroke and neurodegenerative disorders.   Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk, Inflammation and Disease is aimed at doctors specializing in internal medicine,



neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, nephrology or endocrinology and will also be of interest to GPs, trainee doctors, and clinical and basic researchers working on cardiovascular and autoimmune disorders.